Re: Committed: (was Printed Conlang stuff?)

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Jim Hopkins wrote:

> My goal in creating Druni
> was not to create a language for experimentation with various linguistic
> principles but rather to gather all the qualities and structures and sounds
> that I enjoyed in natlangs and gather them all in one language that would
> reflect my tastes and likes.  Then I would take this fledgling language and
> let it evolve into a deep and rich language complete and independent.
Very well said. I could almost say the same, only I didn't create
Valdyan with a linguistic goal, but with a (con)cultural goal: to be
the language of my invented world.

It's taken on a life of its own, though, and I find that it helps
shape the world as much as the world shapes it.

   Irina

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